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Grml is a Debian based live system focusing on the needs of system administrators.
This Grml release provides fresh software packages from Debian testing (AKA stretch) and is the first Grml release using systemd as its init system.
As usual it also incorporates up to date hardware support and fixes known bugs from the previous Grml release.

Important Changes

Switch from file-rc to systemd as init system.
grml-live (the build system for creating Grml (based) Linux live systems) still supports non-systemd systems using file-rc, though we don't plan to maintain this in the long run.
For the reasons why we actually switched to systemd please visit the FAQ.
Due to the change to systemd some boot options in the current release might not work as before and some further issues might have been unnoticed yet.
Please let us know if you should stumble upon any such issues.

New Grml repository signing key: 4096R/21E0CA38EA2EA4AB.
If you're using the Grml repositories (deb.grml.org) please make sure to use a current version of the grml-debian-keyring package.
The GPG key is also available via https://deb.grml.org/repo-key.gpg.

Following Debian's switch, the 32-bit PC support (known as the architecture 'i386' and what's provided by 'grml32') now no longer covers a plain i586 processor.
The new baseline is the i686, although some i586 processors (e.g. the 'AMD Geode') will remain supported.
The following shell script may be a useful indicator (assuming only one processor is installed in the machine):

if grep -q '^flags.*\bfpu\b.*\btsc\b.*\bcx8\b.*\bcmov\b' /proc/cpuinfo; then
echo "OK (assuming all CPUs are of the same type)"
else
echo "NOT OK: Missing one or more of the required CPU extensions"
fi

Known issues

Download Grml 2017.05

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Your comments, bug reports, patches, and suggestions will help
fixing bugs and improving future releases. If you find a problem with
the release please check the known bugs list and report problems using information on grml.org/bugs/. Please send your feedback and
feature requests to the Grml team!